Describe the Enhancement

This issue arose via METplus Discussions: dtcenter/METplus#1249

The user is passing monthly data as input to MTD. However, since the number of days in a month do not remain constant, the interval between timesteps does not remain constant. This certainly is a reasonable use of MTD and should be supported.

Recommend providing the simplest fix, which is switching that ERROR message to a WARNING instead. However when making this change, be sure to check the code to see if/where the timestep is used. Make sure that the timestamps written to the output actually do match the timesteps read from the input.

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4 hours.

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